Show j i t TIIE GARLAND TIMES GARLAND i UTAH oldier of a Has World Heard Last of Kreuger? Writer Sure International Swindler’s “Suicide” Was a Fake me Is that I know the woman who to the doctor herself In perYou may not believe the palthe but you must believe doctor No not the doctor In Paris the other doctor who Is much more Important the doctor whom Ivar Kreuger has to thank for his pew spoke son lbearer face The things you can do with operA new nose new ations nowadays So you think Kreuger Is dead? cheeks a new forehead a new chin In not Ivar Kreuger can walk unconcerned But Well so do most people There only a few people along every street In the Ukraine Sweden him for the docthink ao Maria Lagar asserts In Nobody recognizes womPrager Tagblat Prague Virtually tor Is an artist and I know the It la the talk of the coun- an who talked to him nohody And what are they saying? try That of course he Is alive Where does he live? 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You can buy one more than for 25 francs In the morgue GIVES you economy I An amazMoreover wlmt they said Hlmut ing new Invention called the You the body sounds suspicious “inserted valve seat” made of know what the pallbearer In Stockline chromium alloy aaves gas s Ivor holm said who carried casket? That he had never and cuts operating expense carried such a light one and that Valves don’t need grinding for 30 he hnd never known there to be thousand miles or more And such a strong smell of wax at a that’s one of the sensational 30000 MILES AND MORE WITHOUT GRINDING VALVES Creole" 4 from Basse’s “Bnanori coert ey Charlea Serlbaer'a Ttt Great Sons) By ELMO SCOTT WATSON JE ORDERED the firing on Fort Sumter and thus furnished the spark which “set off the mighty conflagration of the greatest civil war In history Ptit th's “kindliest military In engagement conducted history with the utmost good nature almost tenderness on both sides —a pleasant which gave no hint of the grlmness to follow’” was hailed as a great victory and he became the Idol of a new nation the Confederate States of America The Confederate congress In behalf of the new nation voted him a resolution of thanks The general assembly of South Carolina the scene of his great "victory" did the same of his native New Orleans raised funds to bny a golden sword for him Ills admirers In Montgomery Ala the Confederate capital decided to buy him a new horse and present It to him upon his next visit there He received more than 250 letters of congratulation and the manuscripts of five poems written to him Then he was ordered to Richmond to confer with President Jefferson Davis and his progress north was a triumphal procession with cheering crowds and blaring bands at every railroad Wherever he appeared the crowds Junction demanded a speech Arriving In Richmond he “was bustled and shoved and kissed and had to stand with a scarlet embarrassed face while a spindly maiden of forty to whom forty made no difference snipped a button from his coat" Three months later two uniformed mobs fought a battle near Manassas or Bull Run In The uniformed mob which had Virginia marched south many of them carrying lengths of rope “to lead a Rebel prisoner back to Washington” went back toward that city In a In rout almost unparalleled history The uniformed mob which had marched north each man confident of his ability to “whip five Yankees before break fast" experienced unexpected difficulties In whipping two But theirs was the victory anyway and after that another extravaganza of hero worship In the South they began naming children after him There was talk of making him President of the Confederates States of America He had to keep an extra supply of coat buttons In his tent — they snipped them off so fast As you have probably already guessed the object of all this frenzy was Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard a general In the Confederate army In ISC “But” you say “if he was such a great hero then why do we hear so little of him now?" To find the answer to that question turn to a new biography which has Just been published by Charles Scribner's Sons It Is “Beauregard the Great Creole" written by Hamilton Basso who has set about the task of rescuing from obscurity the man once hailed as “one of the greatest military figures In history” In the prologue to his biography Mr Basso aays: “Occasionally In the textbooks we came across his name But It Is only rarely and then with a scant line or two they are done with him “He has fallen Into obscurity even In the South whore once hevas loved and honored as And so In writing of him It has milch as Lee Interested me to seek an explanation of his neg- ' The fault I believe and lect and effacemenj the blaine f If there Is any blame) Is that of the tradltlonulK's and the myth makers — all the Happy Galahids of the Picturesque" Mr Basso then points out that In 1805 when the Civil war ended a ruined a defeated people returned to the dally routine of life a changed life In which "they had no presAll ent and so far as they could see no future that was left Inviolate was the past” And the prostrate South clung desperately to Its memories of the beauty the chivalry and the romance that had been In the past In the years that followed mjths and legends began to spring up to form the parts of the "plantation or Southern tradition” and a art of that tradition was that of the Civil war were “Hete fortunately the rot called upon to exercise their creative InTheir hero was genuity to any great extent His name was Robert Edward already made Lee Lee then became the legendary hero He was the model the others must measure np to A few Soutbera generals notably Stonewall Johnston and Jeb Jackson Albert Sidney Btuart bore many points of resemblance to Lee could Incorporate them therefore The tradition Into Its dogma" could not be ao Included But Beauregard For one thing he and Lee were totally unlike Then too Beauregard was a In every respect Frenchman and the tradition Is essentially Add to this the bitter antagonism that sprang op between President Jefferson talk only cremation features of the big new Dodge The pallbearer has a wide acSi —just a few dollar more most of lucludes the that quaintance than the lowest priced cars! He Is a fine fellow people I know But what concerns very affable Sensational “SHOW DOWIl” PLAN O O Laure Vlllere Beauregard and Beauregard early In the war More one historian has pointed out how Davit suffered from the delusion that he was a great military strategist and he would brook no with his strategy of waging terference a defensive war and trying to defend every part of the empire of the South In contrast to this attitude was Beauregard ! desire for a concentration of the Confederate forces in the vitally Important places and the offensive war which waging of a smashing would decide the issue as quickly as possible “lfs” of the Civil One of the most Interesting war Is what might have happened If this Creole tradition reared In the Napoleonic had been There li given a free hand from the outset no doubt that he had In him the makings of a to seems soldier but he have just always great — whether missed success because of his own or because of circumstances over shortcomings which he had no control it is difficult to say was born on a plantation In Loul Beauregard slana Just 115 years ago — May 28 1818 — when that state was still more French than American From the first he had a passloa for guns for So when be for everything horses military was sent to school In New York conducted by two ex captains of Nathe brothers Peugnet poleon and listened to their tales of the great campaigns In which they had fought under the Little Corporal this passion was only intensified to the The natural result was an appointment United States Military academy at West Point there was s One of his Instructors In 1834 A little named Robert Anderson Kentuckian over a quarter of a century later the former student was to order his soldiers to open fire on the fort defended by the former Instructor but he was not present when the fort was surrendered “It would be an uuhonorable thing" “to be present at the humiliation he declared of his friend" was graduated from West In 1838 Beauregard Point second In a class of 45 One of his classmates was named Irvin McDowell And 23 years later Irvin McDowell and Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard were to be commanders of Bull creek Run when forces In Virthe opposing ginia received Its bloody baptism a lieutenant In After graduation Beauregard tlie engineers corps first helped In the construction of Fort Adams In Rhode Island Then he was sent to take charge of an engineering pro ect at Baratarla bay So he came back to his own Creole country There he met and fell In love with the lovely Laure Vlllere and when they were married two of the most dlstlngushed were united families In Louisiana Then came the Mexican war and during that conflict he was twice brevetted for gallant and first as a captain service meritorious for hla at Contreras and Churubusco and gallantry again as a major for bravery In the battle of He returned to New Orleans as t Cbaultepec local hero and was presented with a golden But the years which followed were dull sword ones and Beauregard was rapidand uneventful ly slipping into obscurity TTien by pulling certain wires he succeeded lu getting himself appointed as commandant at West Point This was two days after Lincoln’s election In 1800 and when It seemed tertain that Louisiana would secede from the Union On hla way to New York Beauregard stopped off In to explain to tys superior officers Washington that should Louisiana withdraw from the Union he must follow his state The result was that be was superintendent at West Point for only live he waa ordered hark- ter- - Ioul — slana thus establishing a record for briefness In the time which any officer held that post Louisiana seceded and Beauregard the engineer who had prepared and presented a comprogram for the defense of the Misprehensive sissippi river passage was called to Montgomery for a special meeting with Provisional President Da via Jefferson rf e good by “He kissed his Salt Lake City’s Davis and aald be would be gone a fortnight Sweeps Nation! eweitHotrl eaureqard after Shiloh than Imaglns a car that Mils Itself — and doablas lu s1m almost overnight in city after city Thst’s what the mw Dodge Is doing Saying Its cards om then asking any the table other car near iu price to match on the open road in traffic up hilla Go to your near- est Dodge dealer today and ask for the sensational score card Then make your own test against any other car lie was four years" During those four years he rose to the height of hla military ambition and sank to the depths Within a short time after Manassna he was definitely “In bad" with Davis and the secretary of war Benjamin He was sent to the Deportment of the West as second In command to Albert Sidney Johnston At the Battle of Shiloh or Plttsbnrg Landing a bullet struck down devolved Johnston and the command upon Beauregard But with certain victory In sight when he could have annihilated Grant's army He retreated he ordered the fighting stopped to Corinth leaving Grant In possession After Shiloh the whisperings against Beauregard began There began to be doubts as to the greatness of the hero of Sumter and the victor of of Manassas But he did score a victory sorts In his skillful evacutlon of CorlDth when Halleck might have crushed him Despite this fact he was relieved of his command and sucgone ceeded “pets” The by Gen Braxton Bragg one of Davis Illness which had troubled him since the of the war made a long leave of abbeginning sence necessary and after he had somewhat regained his health be was placed in command at Charleston agaiW There he successfully resisted a Federal attack aimed at this “breeding In 1864 he was serving unplace of secession” der Lee In resisting the sledge hammer strokes he At Petersburg of Grant aronnd Richmond beat off an attack which saved Richmond for nine more months A year later after Lee had surrendered there was a dramatic meeting between Davis and Beauregard Davis was pleading for a continuance of the war But Beauregard and Gen Joseph Johnston told him plainly that It was no use to struggle longer against the inevitable to Sherman and the So Johnston surrendered war was over Wlthjydy $115 In hla pocket Beauregard started back to Louisiana In New himself a hero to his peofound he still Orleans But In the years that followed the ple faded even In Louisiana There was the matter of the Louisiana lottery the gambling scheme which was so bitterly assailed as a menace to the morals and character of the nation Its directors needed the association of some man whose greatness of name would lend and certo the and dignity lottery chapter tify to the fairness of the drawings Finally they got such names two of them One was Gen Jubal A Early and the other was Gen Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard “The a little shocked South was astonished and made apologies for her distinguished sons for him and But though It apologized tried to forget his association with the octopus It was not the It never really forgave him to war do" Civil a general thing for Came the 1890s The Civil war was becoming Most of the great figures In It a dim memory were dead Only a few lingered on among them the Great Creole In his seventy fifth year the “He felt as If knives old Illness assailed him were sticking In his throat he could feel the pulse of fever behind his eyes Sometimes In the evening his officers would come to his quarters to cheer him up The fife leaped and roared and those who liked whisky had a nip or two and Stuart sang In his great booming voice Perhaps as he went up the stairs the echo of Stuart’s song went softly Into his darkened room” perhaps the dark was poignant' And with the ghosts of men In weathered gray perhaps as he fell asleep there was the past again and the days of golden glory when his sun Southern banner a Or In the name was only quiet and perhaps there was nothing the ceasing of his heart and the peaceful com— ing of the end" by Western NcwvptPr Union) ID 4 naHJKE-i- O ©it i Q HOTEL O TEMPLE SQUARE Radio Floating Powor angina mountings with in tvwy room 13 0 Wmntli ROSSITER Mgr coniMCtioa WHEELBASE FROM RATES mpptkt ERNEST C Jwmt DODGE “6” 200 Tile Baths 200 Rooms WNU — W 21—33 AMD BP Dodge Eight 1 1113 to tU9J All pric 00 factory Detroit f iu£ wWL vow' thhHL A QjC&e 'a Conoco quality rhythmic ' Bronze has greatly improved always the purr of seemingly effortless in its power quiet performance It has also instant starting greater mileage lightning and and power Try a tank full be convinced CONOCO GASOLINE I - |